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East Asia booming, but rising currencies a risk: World Bank

TOKYO: East Asia is leading the global recovery, but its success has attracted a surge of capital that has inflated currencies, spelling a risk to exports and future growth, the World Bank said Tuesday.
While the rebound is sluggish in the United States, EU and Japan, emerging East Asia, led by China, is growing at close to pre-2008 global crisis levels, with an expected real economic growth rate of 8.9 percent this year, it said. "East Asia remains the fastest growing world